I would say about a week ago there was a clean low miles 2002 SS camaro that arrived at one of my local dealerships. I have been thinking about getting into another RWD V8 for a few months and thought i would go and take a look at it and figure out what they would give me for my car. So currently im sitting at 119k and the car is clean, doesn't leak a drop. When i arrived the sale person even commented that he hasn't seen one of these this well taken care of and that they usually come in all beat to hell. So i go through the process for them to take it to the back and look it over. They came back and told me that the most they would give me is $4000 for the car. So my question to you guys is, what have you gotten for your cobalts when you traded them in? I bought this car from a dealer for $10,000 4 years ago and that was close to what the value was on KBB. Has the value of the SS really dropped that much? I feel like this quote is basically the trade in value for a base model cobalt.

You have to think of how difficult it'd be to sell an old sports coupe known to be owned by young people.

There is zero collector value. To everyone besides this forum our cars have zero desirability either.

The annoying thing is the manager telling me how he wanted the car on the lot. Even went as far as calling me 2 more times trying to get the car.

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Originally Posted by ProfDNS

Dealerships will always lowball you down to 30% to what they believe they could sell it. If you really want to sell, do it privately.

My last vehicle i traded in they gave me over the value to pay off what i owed and put me in another vehicle i was hoping it would be the same here. Im betting they would be listing this for around 10k. I know they need to make a profit but damn. Ill have it paid off in a year or 2 so i will just have to wait and sell it private party.

Ford announced in the next couple years that they will only build mustangs and focus. All other cars will go away because everyone wants trucks and crossovers.
When we got our Acadia they only wanted to give us $8000 trad in on the wife's 5 year old regal that had 57000 miles and was spotless. I got $5,000 more on my 7 year old Dakota that had 20,000 more miles.

To be fair, if your typical driver doesn't continually hammer the throttle, the larger vehicles can get ok mileage.

Granted I believe they're trying to corner the market and hopeful that gas prices skyrocket and people are stuck with the large vehicles. They probably get kick backs from the oil companies. It's not unheard of that car companies collaborate with the oil companies to squeeze more money out of the consumer.